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google grabs phone contacts

this may may be wrong forum but i'll start here.

i notice on my google email account web interface under "contacts" all my phone contacts from my cell phone are there. i just noticed this as it wasn't an issue with blackberry.

is there a way to not have google auto grab so much data from my phone and put it on my google web account?

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GLW163

This a feature most people like. If you ever get a new android phone you just log in with your gmail account and all you contacts will load onto that phone. If you want to turn off contact syning. Open contacts, click on menu button bottom left, click on accounts. then click on google and uncheck sync contacts.

hi535

we do the same with copying over a sim card/sd card to the new android phone too, yes?

appreciate the info on sync'ing contacts

Ann154

You could copy the contacts to the SD card. Unfortunately not all android phones have a SD card slot and rely on the internal storage only.

The SIM card may or may not have enough space to store the contacts.

IMHO having the contacts including phone contacts in the Gmail account is faster and simpler. I can sync my contact information between three different android devices and any changes made on one update to the other two the next time they sync with the cloud.

hi535

i will agree it is faster and simpler.

i just have a few issues with google and its constant profiling of account data.

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